...the chapters are lucidly composed, and consequently pleasant to read...The introduction by the editors is very fine indeed...I find something compellingly interesting everywhere in the text. The combination of theory, conception and fact is quite gracefully handled. No heavy-footed jargon here.Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley
Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While discussions have centred on the 'Nordic model' of the...
...the chapters are lucidly composed, and consequently pleasant to read...The introduction by the editors is very fine indeed...I find something co...
..".the articles, taken together, provide an exciting picture of the diversity that is unified in the Nordic region... and] a significant contribution to the discussion of multiple modernities." - Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Etudes scandinaves au Canada
"The contributors to this volume are supremely well-qualified to explore these themes; most of them have spent long and distinguished careers researching these or similar questions...As one might expect, the book impresses above all with the weight of scholarship displayed here." - H-Soz-u-Kult
..".the chapters are lucidly...
..".the articles, taken together, provide an exciting picture of the diversity that is unified in the Nordic region... and] a significant contribu...
